Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschyluswas an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
suffering way ive-learned
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
women dying rumor
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
men afterlife justice
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
hungry wailing aloof
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.
hands zeus hephaestus
The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.
god destiny towns
The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
men long safe
As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.
pain rewards
The reward of pain is experience.
justice customs dies
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
rights long lasts
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
simple speech
Simple is the speech of truth.
believe rumor facts
It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.
eye men fortune
High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
men reality justice
Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.